Amazon's video strategy seems to be paying off: "Video streams on
Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year," the company
said. Amazon has approved six new original series in addition to
a series of half-hour comedies from cult director Whit Stillman.

The stock rose 2% in after-hours trading.

Here's the guidance:

Net sales are expected to be between $18.1 billion and $19.8
billion, or to grow between 15% and 26% compared with second
quarter 2013.

Operating income (loss) is expected to be between $(455)
million and $(55) million, compared to $79 million in second
quarter 2013.

Here are Amazon's historic revenues:

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Here's the sales breakdown:

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Here's CEO Jeff Bezos' official quote:

"We get our energy from inventing on behalf of customers, and
2014 is off to a kinetic start,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO
of Amazon.com. “Our device team launched Fire TV, offering great
content, including our recently announced exclusive deal with
HBO, and innovative features like unified voice search, which
we’re delighted is being adopted by so many new partners,
including Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu Plus, Crackle and Showtime
Anytime. The team is working hard to keep Fire TV in stock."